Nancy Fleming to speak Thursday

Nancy Fleming, director of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, will be guest speaker at the Roswell Rotary Club meeting on Thursday (July 7).

Fleming has worked for the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation in many capacities. Her experience includes 25 years assisting the former Roswell Artist-in-Residence program director — including stints as interim director — as well as years of part-time work at the Anderson Museum in various aspects.

She taught art at the middle school level for more than 8 years and has an extensive history of teaching art workshops, classes, and assisting with numerous public art projects, nonprofit art programs, and art-related projects in the Roswell area.

Fleming creates works ranging from graphics to collages, from costumes to floats, and has exhibited a life-size living room made with upscaled thrift store handicrafts at ArtPrize and the University of New Mexico, Gallup.

She recently co-founded the Miniatures and Curious Collections Museum in Roswell and is making use of her obsession with “stuff” and expanding Roswell’s cultural offerings in her free time.

She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and is a certified New Mexico Art Educator.

Nancy Fleming at Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art

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New club officers sworn in

Roswell Rotary Club officers for 2022-23 were installed Thursday (June 30) during an evening backyard barbecue meeting.

Club president Bianca Cheney led the list of new club officers. Other officers sworn in at the dinner meeting were Marcos Nava, president-elect; Chris Lauderman and Nicole Wieser, directors; and Jack Swickard, nominee for one of two open positions on the board of directors.

Club member John Drusedum, the new governor of Rotary District 5520, attended the dinner and participated in the swearing-in of the officers.

Other club officers for 2022-23 are Paul Moore, director; Lee Murdoch, sergeant at arms; Denise Weaver, past president; Francisco Olvera, treasurer; and Detra Reese, executive secretary.

Bianca and JP Cheney hosted the dinner at their home.

Sunny Kellerman, past District governor from Silver City, inducts Bianca Cheney as Roswell Rotary Club president.

District Governor John Drusedum helps swear in (from left) Bianca Cheney; Jack Swickard, nominee for director; Nicole Wieser and Chris Lauderman, directors; and Marcos Nava, president-elect.

Officers to be installed at barbecue

Incoming Roswell Rotary Club officers will be installed Thursday evening (June 30) at a backyard barbecue.

Bianca and JP Cheney will host the event, which starts at 6 p.m. at 2813 N. Elm Ave. Attire is backyard casual and spouses are invited.

Chopped brisket is being provided by Backdraft Barbeque at Third Street Station. RSVPs were due June 16.

Being installed as officers for 2022-23 are:

President — Bianca Cheney

President-elect — Marcos Nava

Director — Chris Lauderman

Director — Paul Moore

Director — Nicole Wieser

Sergeant at Arms — Lee Murdoch

Past President — Denise Weaver

Treasurer — Francisco Olvera

Executive Secretary — Detra Reese

The club currently has two openings on the Board of Directors.

Marketing official discusses festival

Renee Puckett, city marketing coordinator, addresses the club on June 23 about the upcoming UFO Festival.

Childress addresses club

Kim Childress, deputy director of special services and disability services officer at ENMU-R, speaks to the Roswell Rotary Club on June 16.

Dr. John Henry dead at 69

Former Roswell Rotary Club member John C. Henry passed away on May 26, 2022, at Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. He was born March 17, 1953, in Clovis to Vella Mae and Clifford Henry.

John Henry

John met his wife, Glenda, while both were attending Texas Tech University in Lubbock. They married when John was a first-year medical student at the University of New Mexico Medical School in 1975.

Upon finishing his Dermatology residency in 1983 at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, they moved to Roswell, where his parents lived.

John practiced medicine for 36 years in Roswell before retiring in March 2019.

Besides John's love of practicing medicine was his love for his family and friends. He was an avid book reader and enjoyed keeping up with many types of sports.

Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Glenda; two sons, John David and wife Rachael and granddaughter, Evelyn, and son Michael and wife Lanay and grandsons Augustine and Levi; sister Sally and husband Bob Sanford; niece Beverly and husband Wayne Hall; nephew Bob and wife Wendy Sanford; sister-in-law Sharlyn and husband Ernest Kohler, and many nieces and nephews.

John was preceded in death by his parents Vella Mae and Clifford Henry and niece Brenda Tipton.

A private family memorial will be held at a later date.

Deadline for Rotary fund drive

June 16 marks the last week of the Roswell Rotary Club’s 2022 Annual Fund Drive